Another day entirely wasted pulling up Wall to Wall carpet.
The installers, they go crazy, firing staples from machine guns, they assume that whoever ordered this carpet will want it forever.
I don't. I want it gone yesterday.
The whole idea of wall to wall carpet offends me, not least because I have to spend hours ripping it up, pulling staples and nasty wooden-spike-clips from the floor that have filled me with tetanus. Or the dirt, so much of which has built up beneath the floor that I think - momentarily - that the house has been built directly upon the ground and the wall-to-wall carpet is there to hide the grass...
No such luck.
And hours and hours of pulling up staples and tacks and sweeping up garbage bags full of fine dust later I'm done.
It should be illegal.
What is the benefit? A haven for allergies, dirt, mites? "It's like having slippers on your feet wherever you go, only at many hundreds of times the price"
For health reasons alone it should be illegal. But it's done, I've pulled it all up and hidden the remnants in the neighbors trash bin. Now to lay the floor.